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TIL There was so much fighting on the Normandy beaches on D-Day, that it is estimated about 4% of the sand is actually shrapnel

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bAGE TIL of the Peshtigo Fire, the deadliest wildfire in recorded history. It consumed an area twice the size of Rhode Island, but it was easily forgotten as it occurred the same day as the Great Chicago Fire.
D1Jyr TIL there are two statues in Beijing of former NBA All-star Stephon Marbury. There is also a Stephon Marbury museum, a Chinese musical about his life and a movie in the works.
GYP77 TIL Laika Studios, the company behind stop motion classics such as Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, is owned by Phil Knight, cofounder of Nike, and run by his son, Travis Knight.
011j TIL dolphins do not have vocal chords. All the sounds that we hear from them are produced with their blowhole.
nWbG TIL that cheerleading is, by an enormous margin, the most dangerous organized sport in high school and college